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Mr. Mayor Michael Bloomberg did you come up with this ridiculous idea while staying at your Bahamas home or while out hob knobbing all over the place staying in your many homes with heat, food, water and electric; the very essentials these people need including every parent of children, the elderly, and single men and woman of every ethic origin race and culture who alike are all living with HIV/AIDS. Would you deny your “own,†a roof over their heads should they become ill and or unable to car
Mean people do mean things like try to displace harmless people in need of housing to save their very lives
Disgraceful! Mayor Bloomberg is classic, archetypal "limousine liberal"...if he just so happens to be too rich to see a problem, then there's "no problem"! never mind that the cost of groceries and toiletries in NYC far exceeds HASA allotments, never mind that AIDS patients typically have additional weekly expenses directly related to our illness...let's just fly Bloomie's personal jet to a foreign conference where we can discuss alternative solutions over caviar n champagne!
Lamarre
How can Bloomburg's office claim that this would be an unfunded mandate? The federal HOPWA grant pays for the cost of housing. HASA only manages the grant, and since it is a formula based grant, there is ample federal resources for the state and city to do what is right and place a 30% cap for rent to people with HIV/AIDS - just like everyone else already has. Only HASA clients currently have to pay all of their money in rent. People with other disabilities are already capped at 30%.
May 9, 2010 • New York